Quotes about Self-determination

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

It is human variability -- the fact that one man's meat is is another man's poison -- that imposes on us the duty of preserving individual liberty and of encouraging tolerance, of preventing majorities from repressing minorities, of permitting people to have a certain measure of self-determination in their lives.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own.And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

Today I may way before an awestruck world; I am still master of my fate. I am still captain of my soul.

Being a leader is living life on your terms not getting followers

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.